S E C T IO N 3
Questions 28-40
Read the passage below and answer Questions 28-40.
Reading
The History of Early Cinema
The history of the cinema in its first thirty years is one of
major and, to this day, unparalleled expansion and
growth. Beginning as something unusual in a handful of
big cities - New York, London, Paris and Berlin - the new
medium quickly found its way across the world, attract
ing larger and larger audiences wherever it was shown
and replacing other forms of entertainment as it did so.
As audiences grew, so did the places where films were
shown, finishing up with the ‘great picture palaces’ of
the 1920
s, which rivalled, and occasionally superseded,
theatres and opera-houses in terms of opulence and splendour. Meanwhile, films them
selves developed from being short ‘attractions’ only a couple of minutes long, to the full-
length feature that has dominated the world’s screens up to the present day.
Although French, German, American and British pioneers have all been credited with the
invention of cinema, the British and the Germans played a relatively small role in its world
wide exploitation. It was above all the French, followed closely by the Americans, who were
the most passionate exporters of the new invention, helping to start cinema in China,
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